Influence of burst noise channel and hidden terminals over the IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

Author

Hadzi-Velkov, Zoran ; Gavrilovska, Liljana

Author_Institution

Univ. Sv. Kiril i Metodij, Skopje, Macedonia

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

2641

Abstract

The overall performance of IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN is examined with respect to the “hidden terminal” problem under burst-error channel conditions. Only the ad-hoc portion of the wireless network architecture, with stations generating time-insensitive asynchronous data traffic, is considered. The simulation clearly shows that both the burst-error medium and the hidden terminals have negative impact on the maximum achievable throughput and the delay. However, the channel fading tends to dominate the performance over the influence of hidden terminals, as BER increases

Keywords

burst noise; data communication; error statistics; fading channels; indoor radio; mobile computing; mobile radio; packet radio networks; performance evaluation; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; BER; IEEE 802.11; ad-hoc wireless network architecture; burst error; burst noise channel; channel fading; delay; hidden terminals; performance; simulation; throughput; time-insensitive asynchronous data traffic; wireless LAN; Ad hoc networks; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Delay; Fading; Local area networks; Throughput; Wide area networks; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999. VTC 1999 - Fall. IEEE VTS 50th

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5435-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.1999.800265

Filename

800265